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In reply to the discussion: NRA President: The AR-15, Which Can Fire 700 Rounds Per Minute, Is The ‘Musket Of Today’ [View all]Deep13
(39,154 posts)209. Aftermarket modification.
And I have no problem banning those since they are a legal loophole.
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NRA President: The AR-15, Which Can Fire 700 Rounds Per Minute, Is The ‘Musket Of Today’ [View all]
Report1212
Feb 2013
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Thanks For Sharing. Keep Up The Valuable Work, Don't Let Anybody Hold You Back. (nt)
Paladin
Feb 2013
#16
Sorry, but until you provide something, anything, to back up your rather interesting "opinion"....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#18
Ahhh, so the hyperbole is blowing a person "to bits" when all it does is kill them.
EOTE
Feb 2013
#32
Then you should understand that it makes no difference whether a gun tears one to pieces
EOTE
Feb 2013
#40
The gun nuts are the ones playing stupid semantic arguments when lives are on the line.
EOTE
Feb 2013
#47
i hope we take away your 'right' to automatic weapons and large capacity clips....i hope.
spanone
Feb 2013
#54
oh give it up its the same damn post every time ^^ this one is slightly more offensive
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#174
didn't like that surprise, huh?? my objection is mainly your bloviating
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#196
you aren't good at avoiding questions- i did reply to post #57, still wondering what you mean?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#199
Many prohibitionists seem to have little concern about violence just a focus
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#132
We're talking about multiple wounds in 6 and 7 year old children, to include....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#31
A child hit 11 times by .223 rounds producing 2-inch+ wound channels is a child...
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#65
I'd rather not clutter my PM inbox with stuff that can't be discussed on this board,....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#75
I gave YOU what you asked, again in respect to this board, I will not post links to firearms sites..
SQUEE
Feb 2013
#80
No, I'm not going to be bothered by a PM that contains info that can just as easily....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#88
No thanks...I won't be buying anything that can't be linked in this thread. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#85
Well, here is a thread to peruse (among many re: M-16/15 "tumbling" rounds):
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#117
Hydrostatic shock is discussed in the knock-down effects of big-game rounds...
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#82
But, we're not talking about deer in this thread, are we? Since you and a few others insist.....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#93
Hit once in "equivalent" places with equivalent bullets, I don't know. Deer may run further.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#110
Not interested in bits, but the technology in the First is far more specific than in the Second.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#70
That's kind of like saying that because someone ran a 4 minute mile, they could run a marathon...
JVS
Feb 2013
#83
OK, it's only about 50 rounds a minute. I guess that makes it no more lethal than Daisy Red Ryder.
Hoyt
Feb 2013
#12
Absurd it is. He also forgot this is 200± years later. Most of us have become more civilized.
Hoyt
Feb 2013
#20
Because they break. All the time. The Aurora shooter had one, and that ended up saving lives
Recursion
Feb 2013
#151
"And more than a few dozen rounds fired in a single burst damages the weapon."
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#134
i didn't give a time period. i don'r care if it happens in 10 months or 10 years, as long as it
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#141
sure, hypothetically. but 5 is, of course, unrealisticly low. 5,000 a year sounds good, too
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#161
no but guns do. why would a sane person just give assault weapons a pass+reg. the other guns?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#163
yup, you don't NEED to own one either, so melt 'em all down- plastic crap. so are you
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#167
bullshit its an easily convertable 'assault pistol',and it is on the new AWB list where it should be
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#171
really? you are blathering about hurricanes, but not paid by the NRA to repeat such silliness?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#164
I'm sure you can find remedial reading comprehension tutors on google. nt
HooptieWagon
Feb 2013
#170
yes but they still won't be able to explain what the hurricane/gun connection is
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#172
When my state (or Congress) codifies the need for me to show up with a weapon, and
jmg257
Feb 2013
#27
The NRA talking heads are just doing their job, representing the gun manufacturing industry
AndyA
Feb 2013
#28
The American machine gun of WWII fired about 500 rounds per minute, if memory is correct,
indepat
Feb 2013
#56
Yep...hunting rifles and rifle-muskets were reserved for light infantry units who ....
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#100
I don't know about "reserved." Rifles were the chief weapon of the militia and frontiersmen.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#105
This assumes that all those who were in the militia got arms from the governor, not traders.
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#131
i'd think you might try and post a line or two of this 'interpretation' of 'yours'
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#115
This stuff has been here many times. Check archives. I can't understand your cryptic...
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#118
well if you can't understand the definition of the word from the dictionary...
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#125
Fat Tony says the Constitution is "dead". That means the 2nd only applies to muskets. Sorry.
kestrel91316
Feb 2013
#89
Fat Tony thinks the 2nd permits every person to carry what an infantryman carries
Peregrine
Feb 2013
#133
whatever, it costs $200-$300,you've already blown all the money on a cheesy gun, what's $2-300 more?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#184
"We're dealing with the Democratic Party's version of ignorant teabaggers."
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#204
And megaton nuke warheads are just today trebuchet, catapult... what the big deal?
JackN415
Feb 2013
#155